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Jane Hirshfield – Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation: A Letter in Response to Ling Chung

Modernist Elements in Jane Hirshfield’s Voice and Zen Meditation: A Letter in Response to Ling Chung Jane Hirshfield Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Dear Ling Chung, I am deeply moved by the profound attentiveness you have brought to my poems’ words, and to my practice understanding, in your essay. […]

Adrian Grafe – Hopkins and Home

Hopkins and Home32) Adrian Grafe Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) I remember a house where all were good To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: Comforting smell breathed at very entering, Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood.33) In the sonnet “In the Valley of the […]

Oliver R. Baker – Close Reading vs. Accretions of Dubious Scholarship: A Question of Competence. A Response to Kathryn Walls

Close Reading vs. Accretions of Dubious Scholarship: A Question of Competence. A Response to Kathryn Walls Oliver R. Baker Published in Connotations Vol. 21.1 (2011/12) Three years before Alexander Pope published the five canto version of his mock−epic verse satire, these two couplets appeared in his major work, An Essay […]